Extranet capabilities

Is anyone using SPPS in an extranet situation? That is, being able tosearch for a document, open the document and edit and save the document?

The only problem I am having is the saving part of it. The more I thinkabout this I am not certain how this would work. I mean there must besome component installed on the external computer in order to save viahttp correct?

In short, I have an SPPS server published through an ISA server. When Iaccess the site via an external computer I can search and opendocuments. When I try to save the changes to a document it prompts mefor a local save.

What if the workstaion only has Office 97 for example.....even thoughthe doc is opened in IE

I really feel as if I am missing somethgin simple here.....

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I currently have 10 extranet sites up and running. What you are tryingto do cannot be done. Sharepoint will not allow you to modify anydocuments without checking it out first. This is the only way SharePointcan handle version control for the document. You can open it and view itand edit it, but before you leave that document it will ask you to saveit to your local PC. Basically you are checking it out and then checkingit back in after editing it. If you don't have the right office version,the document will not open because the system automatically recognizeswhat application to use to open your document.

It is also true for non-enhanced foler too. In both cases, what you areopening up is a read only file and it requires you to save it to yourlocal after editing the file. The only difference is that withnon-enhanced folder, you can just replace the file but with enhancedfolder, you have to check it out and check it in.

Web Folder works over http and should pass through firewall as long as they areweb dav and http 1.1 compliant.

Also when you open a document from the portal web browser, default behaviour isto open it read only so the only way to save it will be to navigate using webfolder. This is the only option Office will be able to save.

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